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	Inglis on Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:12:32 GMT)
Subject:	Re: latest ls.exe version in XP problem
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> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid>
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:12:32 GMT
> 
> >> NTVDM does not support long file names.
> >
> >Not true: Windows XP does include the long filenames API that DJGPP
> >uses to access long file names.  So something else is at work here.
> 
> That's not clear in any of the docs that mention W2K and XP. 

What docs?

> So MS giveth and MS taketh away in the newest version. 

If this is supposed to mean that the latest version of XP does not
support the LFN API, then it's not true: all versions of XP support
that API.

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